Almost used the 1911 on a dog

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My wife tells me there is a dog out back peeing on her laundry. "the line hangs a little low" ...

Almost used the 1911 on a dog

Ok here is the story.
My wife tells me there is a dog out back peeing on her laundry. "the line hangs a little low" so i proceed to open the back door and step onto the patio. I am 20ft from said Pit bull now and I let a "Go Home" in a fairly gruffy voice. Here is where it went bad.

He decides he is going to charge me growling hard. I draw and flip the safety off and had a bead between his eyes and he stopped. He made a wide berth around me and a couple times he tried to growl and charge me again each time when i drew a bead he stopped.

My wife says i should have pulled the trigger the first time he was 6-7 ft away. What say you?

For reference we have no animal control to speak of and any law enforcement would be an hour out. I do not recognize the dog but it is the second time he has been here. What would you have done? If i had pulled the trigger should i call 911 and file a report? or what?

I think I would have pulled the trigger. He will be back again.
What if the Wife was hanging out laundry and the Pit bull come's back and attack from behind.
Do You have Kids running around the yard screeming having fun ?. The pit bull could charge Them ?.

Make a report of pit bull running loose, incase You shoot. You will be covered if the Law turn up at Your door.

yeah i know i need to fix the line it only hangs down when she first loads it with laundry. I do have 2 kids and i will call our so called animal control tomorrow to report it. It just seemed almost wrong to shoot after he stopped.

yeah i know i need to fix the line it only hangs down when she first loads it with laundry. I do have 2 kids and i will call our so called animal control tomorrow to report it. It just seemed almost wrong to shoot after he stopped.

Hmmm, that sounds to me to be the same as saying "I felt it was wrong to shoot back because the bad guy missed".

The dog was and is a danger to you and your family. If he isn't controlled he may just end up seriously injuring someone.

Do you know where the dog lives? I agree with making a paper trail...make a report, and if you have any way of contacting the owner, let him/her know that you will NOT allow their pit bull access to your children.
I love dogs and realize that sometimes dogs get loose, but it certainly shouldn't be habitual.
I'm also not particularly intimidated by big dogs...they bark and sometimes growl...that's their job. Dogs 'who live long lives' know the differences between a stranger and a threatening stranger.

Tough call. If I thought that the dog would come back to harm my wife or children, it would have been good bye dog. If not, everyone walks away a winner, dog included. I have had a neighbor who put his dog in the house and locked the doors because he knew that I was coming over to kill the dog for biting my 8 year old son, on the street, out of his yard.

I let the cops write him a $400 ticket, and pay for a $1200 visit from the paramedics. I think that he learned his lesson that day. Keep the dog up. Had the dog, a pit bull, have brought blood from my sons leg, there wouldn't have been any locked door that would have stopped me. I said all this to say that I emphasize with your plight. We all know that if you shoot someones dog, you will swing for it.

You have now left a dangerous dog to go bite someone elses kids. How would you feel if in a day or two you read that the dog mauled a kid to death 8 houses down? You should have helped your whole community by putting that thing down.

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent